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boulders of many tons weiglit, evidently displaced 

 by some great revulsion of nature. Few shells of any 

 beauty are found on the shore — the mutton fish, 

 warrener, and limpet, being the only conchological 

 varieties that I saw. 



Whilst here, half-a-dozen of our men were in the 

 forest cutting fire-wood, while others were engaged 

 in procuring water, l^othing was required in the 

 latter case but to scoop a hole in the pebbles on the 

 beach, and allow the snow-water, as it descended 

 from the mountains, to run into it ; then bail out with 

 buckets and fill casks. Neither was there any trouble 

 in rafting or towing it ; our contiguity to the shore 

 being such that it was only necessary to run a small 

 tow-line from the ship, attach it to the raft, and haul 

 it alongside, hand over hand. We also broke out 

 our meat and coopered it, and then our hard work 

 was finished. 



We experienced several continuous and heavy rain 

 storms, accompanied by violent squalls; as these 

 would pass over, the rainbow, by which they were 

 always followed, reflecting on and illuminating the 

 green sides and white caps of the hills, presented to 

 our admiring eyes, a grand, imposing and beautiful 

 sifirht. I know of nothing that I ever saw that 

 more fully impressed my mind with the omnipo- 

 tence of the Creator than did this splendid work ; 

 and I have found myself again and again aroused 

 from my admiration to answer the self-imposed 

 question, " Could any man, after gazing upon such 

 an appearance, candidl}^ feel himself an atheist;" 

 and, after arguing the matter pro and con, could find 

 no excuse for such unbelief 



